Through a glass, darkly
11 Jan 2011
For the past week all at Processingtalk towers have been busy gazing into a set of crystal balls (actually, they’re glass but we’re not picky) to forecast what lays in store for 2011. Here are the results of our meditations.
The export-led economic recovery will continue for most of the year, with the UK manufacturing sector in the vanguard. This, however, will be held back by bankers and a sluggish service sector. Therefore, we can expect a new breed of manufacturers to rise up, very successful but constantly haunted by loan sharks and badly vacuumed hotel rooms.
The royal wedding will be cancelled because of train strikes, a plague of locusts and a sudden outbreak of common sense. Republicans everywhere will rejoice, albeit covered in locusts and marooned in highly undesirable locations.
An unspecified (the glass kept clouding over) huge multinational corporation that helped to cause a massive environmental catastrophe will appear in an obscure report somewhere, which will suggest that the company in question had been very naughty indeed. This will receive zero publicity because of the cancelled royal wedding.
Aston Villa and Middlesex CC will continue to struggle meaning that April and May will be particularly tense months for this editor as two worlds of shockingly indifferent management collide. If you want to ask me for any favours this year, be cunning, wait for June.
Lyndon White
Editor, Processingtalk
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